Monday, March 8, 2010

As all you guys know that an event named Vegetable Marathon is going on in my blog. The current event-Vegetable marathon-Eggplant has completing its journey in vegetable marathon by 11 of this month.. So another vegetable is getting ready for its place to race in marathon..This vegetable is low in Saturated Fat and Sodium, and very low in Cholesterol. It is also a good source of Vitamin B6, Pantothenic Acid, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus and Potassium, and a very good source of Protein, Vitamin C, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Folate, Copper and Manganese. This vegetable belong to the legume family of the vegetable group. Its none another than Beans...Beans can be eaten raw, sprouted or cooked, ground into flour, curdled into tofu, fermented into soya sauce, tempi and miso. They are excellent in chilis, soups and salads. Main thing i love about beans is-- ZERO CHOLESTEROL

Types of Beans:

Adzuki Beans

Black Beans

Black eyed Peas

Broad beans-fava Beans

Butter Beans

Calico Beans

Cannellini Beans

Chick Peas- Garbanzo beans

Cranberry Beans

Edamame

Great Northern Beans

Italian Beans

Kidney Beans

Lentils

Lima Beans

Mung Beans

Navy Beans

Pinto Beans

Soy Beans

Split peas

White Beans

Green Beans

I am including types of beans as per of my knowledge. If i am missing any kind of beans, please let me know..

Coming to rules for Participation:1) Prepare any dish with Beans as main ingredient. It can be either Vegetarian or non-vegetarian.2) You can send as many recipes as you want.3) I will accept the old entries, if they are updated and reposted with the logo n link back to Vegetable Marathon-Beansevent. 4) Vegetable Marathon is an interminable event.. So i would like to take help from my fellow bloggers to host this event. If you would like to host this event starting from MAY 1st . Please send an email to anitakonasani@gmail.com or drop a comment here with your BLOG URL. I will update it regularly. Check here forhost line up5) Pls link your post to the event announcement and please feel free to use logo.. Post's without link back to this event would not be a part of the roundup.6) Round up will be done after first week of event end date.

7) With a wide variety of beans to choose, i am extending this event for 2 months, i.e From March 10 th to May 10th8) Send Your entries to anitakonasani@gmail.com with subject as Veg-Mar-Beans with following details:

Your Name:Blog's Name:Blog's URL:Recipe Name:Type of Beans:

Link to the Recipe or URL:Snapshot of the Recipe:

I would appreciate a lot, if you name the picture of the dish by the dish name, and the category it belongs,that you are sending me in email.

Recipes from those who do not blog are accepted. Pls do mail them to my email id-- anitakonasani@gmail.com with your recipe details n a picture of the dish.*** Those who are hosting vegetable marathon, please announce the event 2-3 days before 10 th of every month and they need to publish logo on their blog.